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Banksia elegans Meisn.
Elegant Banksia

Reference
Hooker's J.Bot.Kew Gard.Misc. 7:119 (1855)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub (with fire-tolerant rootstock, often suckering), 1-4 m high. Fl. yellow/green-yellow, Oct to Nov. Yellow, white or red sand. Sandplains, low consolidated dunes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 7 October 2002
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Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 2-5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 150-290 mm long, 8-815 mm wide, hairy; petiole 20-60 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, teeth pointing outwards, with 18-38 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), green or yellow; innermost bracts 2-4.5 mm long, hairy. Perianth 25-29 mm long, glabrous, without awns; pistil 25-28 mm long, straight, style hairy. Follicles glabrous or hairy, tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), ovate, 20-25 mm long. Flowers in October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Murchison (MUR), Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Dandaragan, Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Three Springs.